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Beginning VI-3-3-2a

SNAP!

I am free! I can swim. My arms appear to be free.

Let's go with the current...

Wait!

What's tha--

Movement in the blurry field! Dark shapes. Swishing fins... Oh my G--

Something has me. I've been grappled. I am being held close to a strong .. something.

We are moving at high speed through the water. How can I breathe? Have I been holding my breath?

I can feel a cold body against me. Strong clutches grip me. My arms are bound again.

I feel the pain of my injured jaw and the rent flesh of my cheek.

Consciousness fades...

I feel the force of the rushing waters, but I imagine I am held cradled in the bosom of my lost love... or perhaps my mother in the nursery years long ago.

FADE TO BLACK.


I open my eyes